How do we build genuine community wealth and power in a new age of devolution?
Across the UK, work to build community power and local wealth has been growing for many years — from resident-led, place-based programmes to community ownership, local enterprise and neighbourhood-level organising. That work is now gaining new momentum: strengthened community rights, expanding devolution reforms, and major investment programmes that are shifting how power and resources flow into places.
This strand asked what it actually takes to move power, money and ownership toward communities, not just talk about it — and what that momentum demands of funders, in terms of how they invest, how they share power, and how they show up as long-term partners rather than short-term grant-makers.
